Some speculative analysis about how the ever-decreasing projections of global population (now ~9bn in 2054) might impact our climate future — “all else equal, fewer people means less carbon dioxide emissions.”
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Moving the peak-population date up 20 years immediately changes how I think about it. There's a big difference between possibly being in your late 80s when humanity's population peaks and being in your 60s. I wonder if, on a personal level, that's a mental state we should be preparing for because it seems like it would be prime real estate for emotional exploitation/manipulation. I'm trying to imagine a world where we've been spared from the worst effects of climate change but live in a world where more people are dying every year than being born.
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